Eyewitness reports from inside Iran shows that large gatherings of retired teachers gathered today, Thursday, March 9, 2017 in more than 20 major cities in Iran, including Mashhad, Bojnourd, Ferdows, Torbat-heidaria, Mazandaran, Sanandaj, Saqqez, Marivan, Qorveh, Tabriz, Ardebil, Zanjan, Shiraz, Bushehr, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Kangan, Dehgolan, Lordegan, Ahwaz and Aligudarz. The gatherings took place in front of the offices of the ministry of the Education in these cities. In Shiraz on Thursday, March 9, 2017 the protesting teachers sat at a dinner table with no food on it implicating that they are not receiving their wages and salaries, that’s why there is no food on their table.